February 2007 - Posts

• Windham Middle School boys take title

  BY MATT STOUT Don Shirley remembers exactly when he knew the Windham Middle School boys basketball team could challenge for the Tri-County League Class S-2 title. In fact, that defining moment propelled the team there. Down nine points to Woodbury of Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 28, 2007 12:59 PM by Salem Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Windham, schools, sports, Pelham, basketball

• Morris named Volunteer of the Year

  BY DARRELL HALEN When volunteers were sought to serve on Windham’s solid waste committee years ago, Wayne Morris stepped up. The town’s dump and incinerator were in the Rock Pond watershed and Morris, who lives on the pond, wanted to get involved. Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 28, 2007 12:57 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Windham, volunteering

• Barrier will deny beach access to snowmobilers

  BY DARRELL HALEN In response to complaints about people illegally driving across Windham’s beach to use Cobbetts Pond, selectmen ordered a Jersey barrier to be placed at a beach gate. Selectmen made that decision during their Feb. 26 meeting. Town Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 28, 2007 12:55 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Windham, snowmobiling, beach

• Windham Middle School principal named

  Kori Becht, Windham Middle School’s assistant principal, will become the school’s top administrator this summer. BY DARRELL HALEN The Windham School Board has selected Becht to succeed Stephen Plocharczyk, who is retiring at the end of the Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 21, 2007 2:42 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Windham, schools

• Search narrows to three – Superintendent finalists all from New Hampshire

  BY DARRELL HALEN Three school administrators in New Hampshire have been named finalists for the job of superintendent of the Pelham and Windham school districts. Assistant Superintendent Frank Bass of the Manchester School District; John Moulis, the superintendent Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 21, 2007 2:41 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Windham, schools, Pelham

• Where the gaps are – Area schools review test scores to improve learning

  BY DARRELL HALEN & MATT HERSH School officials in Salem, Pelham and Windham are reviewing the results of New England Common Assessment Program scores. Last fall, the test was given to students in grades 3 through 8 throughout New Hampshire. NECAP, Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 21, 2007 2:14 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Windham, Salem, schools, Pelham

• Windham voters debate funding for new high school

  BY DARRELL HALEN Discussion of funding for Windham’s high school building project dominated the Windham School District’s deliberative session. For about two hours, people discussed plans for the school and three warrant articles that each Read More... Posted Thursday, February 15, 2007 9:59 AM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Windham, schools, politics

• Father indicted in baby assault

  BY DARRELL HALEN The father of a baby boy who suffered more than two dozen broken bones has been indicted on assault charges. Gurrie A. Fandozzi II, 40, faces five counts of first degree assault. The indictments, handed down by a Rockingham County grand Read More... Posted Thursday, February 15, 2007 9:58 AM by Salem Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Windham, assault

• $11 million budget up for debate

  BY DARRELL HALEN A proposed operating budget of roughly $11 million, money for capital improvements, new tax exemptions and other requests will be subject to discussion and debate at Windham’s town deliberative session. The meeting, which will be Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 07, 2007 1:53 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Windham, politics

• Getting their 'bearings' – Children get glimpse of school life at Teddy Bear Picnic

  BY DARRELL HALEN It’s not every night a trail of bear paw prints leads visitors at Golden Brook School to its cafeteria. Or that a group of teddy bears are sitting at a table for a tea party in the school’s lobby. But this was special night. Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 07, 2007 1:51 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Windham, schools